{"id":26,"date":"2006-12-20T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/xmas-break-geeking\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T19:05:44","slug":"xmas-break-geeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"xmas &#8220;break&#8221; geeking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The copier is busted, so I can&#8217;t do my note xeroxing prep-work for next semester.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got about 30 minutes until I meet Dr. Satoshi Miura to re-install the gravimeter over in the library (this is part of the ISEA or International geodetic project in SouthEastern Alaska.\u00a0 Check out the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agu.org\/cgi-bin\/SFgate\/SFgate?language=English&#038;verbose=0&#038;listenv=table&#038;application=fm06&#038;convert=&#038;converthl=&#038;refinequery=&#038;formintern=&#038;formextern=&#038;transquery=heavner&#038;_lines=&#038;multiple=0&#038;descriptor=%2fdata%2fepubs%2fwais%2findexes%2ffm06%2ffm06%7c505%7c5128%7cISEA%20%28International%20geodetic%20project%20in%20SouthEastern%20Alaska%29%20for%20rapid%20uplifting%20caused%20by%20glacial%20retreat:%20%284%29%20Gravity%20tide%20observation%7cHTML%7clocalhost:0%7c%2fdata%2fepubs%2fwais%2findexes%2ffm06%2ffm06%7c12880483%2012885611%20%2fdata2%2fepubs%2fwais%2fdata%2ffm06%2ffm06.txt\">ISEA AGU abstract<\/a> about it.\u00a0 That link might even work..)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to install xubuntu on my Mac OSX 10.4.8 machine in parallels.\u00a0 It seems really slow right now, but I am going to wait and see.\u00a0 I think it is because ubuntu is trying to repartition the drive (partman is the main process running), while I set parallels to dynamically create and resize the virtual disk.\u00a0 If I give up (it is hung at 15% on the installer), I might try to create a fixed virtual disk file.\u00a0 I might also switch over to a debian netinstall attempt.\u00a0 This all came about because the one app I need in OSX that I just continually battle with is gnucash.\u00a0 So if I have a Linux box running and gnucash is an apt-get away, perhaps life will be a tad bit better.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll document the battle in the comments, in case someone else has the same brilliant idea..<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/xub1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"waiting (im)patiently\" title=\"waiting (im)patiently\" style=\"width: 287px; height: 219px\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/xub1.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The copier is busted, so I can&#8217;t do my note xeroxing prep-work for next semester.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got about 30 minutes until I meet Dr. Satoshi Miura to re-install the gravimeter over in the library (this is part of the ISEA or International geodetic project in SouthEastern Alaska.\u00a0 Check out the recent ISEA AGU abstract about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;xmas &#8220;break&#8221; geeking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}